Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Elias Isquith talks to David Madland about the connection between increasing inequality and the breakdown of trust in the U.S. political system. CBC…
environment
Serving public or corporate interests?
The audio file below is a recording of my time with Ian Jessop June 17. We talk about LNG and resource taxation, inter-provincial cooperation on resource matters and oil spill…
Celebrate and protect our marine ecology
SLOW FISH – KNOW YOUR FISHERMAN from Kevin Kossowan on Vimeo.
On Being an Ally
I’m not sure how to say this without being blasted, but I’ll try: I might understand a little piece affecting Rachal Dolezal decision to present as black rather than be…
David Suzuki: The values of hope and happiness
David Suzuki on how our tendency to seek solace in material things as a reaction to threats such as terrorism and climate change causes more insecurity. The post David Suzuki:…
“I wonder if she gets paid.”
I wonder if she gets paid. “@GreenpeaceCA: Arctic drilling is obscene. @Janefonda http://t.co/MRRx4vvo6o pic.twitter.com/2vAlfXhw5e” — Vivian Krause (@FairQuestions) June 12, 2015 I wonder if she gets paid, to ask that.…
Over 100 scientists call for oil sands moratorium
Photo by Jason Woodhead A group of more than 100 leading scientists from both Canada and the United States called for a moratorium on new oil sands development at a…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Chris Mooney takes a look at the positive side of social influences on behaviour, as new research shows a correlation between spending time…
350 Responds to Canada’s G7 Commitments
Photo by Pete Souza Press Release Following the G7 meeting in which Canada joined other major polluters in committing to phase out fossil fuels by the end of the century,…
Steves–BC Doesn’t Need Site C Dam
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger It is incredible that our BC Liberal government, prodded along by the foreign owned LNG corporations, are still pushing ahead with building a massive Site C Dam.…
Socialist hordes at the gates, this time for real
Merriam-Webster:“Socialism: a way of organizing a society in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government” For years, leaders of the BC Business Party (AKA Social Credit or…
On Measuring Well
In Plato’s Protagoras, Socrates and Protagoras argue over the language Protagoras uses to explain what happens when, as he describes it, pleasure overtakes reason and people make horrible choices. Socrates…
Confronting Irving and TransCanada in the Land of the Rising Sun
Photo by Shannon Patrick For many years I have been organizing in support of First Nations communities working to stop the expansion of the Canadian tar sands and the associated…
Revolution, the Film
I saw and wrote about this movie two years ago, but it’s being released to a wider audience now. About ten years ago, Rob Stewart was making the film Sharkwater…
Polluted People
In 1935 the DuPont Corporation ran an ad campaign under the slogan “Better Things for Better Living… Through Chemistry.” Many of the vast number of synthetic chemicals introduced by industry…
On Thinking
I’m not even talking about critical thinking here, just plain ol’ thinking. It’s funny how many seem unable or unwilling to do it. While I was in a discussion group…
From FAILURE20 to COP21
Photo by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Climate change is going on. Extreme weather conditions, storms, floodings, landslides, droughts and ice melting are reported ever more regularly from many parts…
NEB’s Energy East pipeline review must be suspended: Groups
Over 60 groups from across Canada recently asked the National Energy Board to suspend its biased review of TransCanada’s Energy East tar sands pipeline. The post NEB’s Energy East pipeline…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – LOLGOP discusses the important role unions play in ensuring widespread freedom and prosperity – and why they’re thus target number one for…